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A lucrative market for IPv4 addresses emerge

It’s the law of supply and demand, now that IPv4 addresses have virtually ran out, it has become a valuable asset. Though I never thought companies today would treat it as a commodity which is something to sell and buy. My understanding is that we’re all being weaned away from IPv4 so that IPv6 adoption would be sped up, and since IPv4 is incompatible with IPv6, dumping the former is the way to go.

What would Microsoft do with all these IPv4 addresses now that we’re all moving to the new IPv6 protocol? Its vice president of global foundation services, Dayne Sampson hinted that it was part of Microsoft’s cloud strategy:

Microsoft continues to assess opportunities to acquire useful assets, whether they are from Nortel or other sources to support the tremendous growth of our online services, particularly enterprise cloud services.

Well now that IPv4 addresses can be transferred or sold from one organization to another, many more companies would most likely follow suit, especially if it suits their interests.